You're (Probably) Killing Your Fruit Trees | Winter Pruning

[@BackToGaia]

He is so skilled and well articulated, I'm blown away! And for free? Heck yeah! Content like this is extraordinary but rare. Much appreciation to both of you for adding value on a platform like this and making it easily accessible to others!

[@BlackThumbGardens]

Word! This is KZbin University.. thanx Ann

[@ellasheridan7637]

Daniel and you, Anne, should be very proud to know that following your previous video i immediately went out and removed any labels remaining on my trees. You both have done a great public service to my little garden

[@dudeusmaximus6793]

Taught myself how to prune years ago by downloading and reading every extension office publication I could find, and by darn I've mostly been doing it right. Thanks for the instructionals..

[@AltaFencing]

Thank you!!!!! I have watched numerous video on how to prune a fruit tree and learned nothing. The doing while videoing was hugely helpful and having a lay person either reiterate or ask for clarification was an additional useful method to convey information.

[@nate2838]

I love this collaboration you guys have. He brings the technical knowledge expressed in a simple way, and you bring the common questions and thought process many people who are learning would have which is a great combination. And you both love what you are doing :)

[@zanecrofts7085]

You can store parts those branches as scion wood to graft onto rootstocks. Also as an arborist myself I encourage people not be afraid large growing rootstocks you can just prune them keep them under control and they have better bigger root systems. Important thing is rootstocks match your soil type

[@semiprolific774]

What education and training did you receive before becoming an arborist?

[@zanecrofts7085]

@semiprolific774 I done alot self study on fruit tree pruning. Attended workshops on orchard and polyculutre agroforestry pruning. And experience at home pruning my own trees that are 7 years old now I propagated myself I years ago. I started a community food Forrest project then decided wanted take my experience further and 3 years ago started Arbourist apprenticeship and just finishing Last couple papers now be qualified. So I've got just as much if not more hands on real life experience as I do with all the academic side of arbouriculture

[@semiprolific774]

@@zanecrofts7085 cool. I’m currently a computer programmer, but have been pruning trees and plants on my property for a few years. Worked at a winery about a decade or so back and used to winter prune grapes…I just want to mess around outside and stop sitting all day

[@vnDannyPhung]

I enjoyed watching and learning about pruning tree in this video. I also totally agreed with you about safety. It is a number one concern when working with tools.

[@justinwest4923]

I'm so glad you made a followup! The original was the first video of yours' that I ever saw, suggested to me because I had been watching videos about tree care. More recently, I discovered Daniel's own channel independently, but for the same reason. Looking forward to the videos on planting and root collar maintenance!

[@ayrplanes]

My dad said a whole dead chicken was by far the best fertilizer he ever tried for his fruit trees. He said a dead fish and a dead cat(natural causes) did little but the chicken fed cherry tree went crazy with growth.

[@phoebeel]

But it needs to be a chicken from your own or your neighbours garden, right? It wouldn't help if I buried a chicken from the supermarket which is probably filled with antibiotics etc. Or am I wrong?

[@joriwilkinson]

I planted an apple tree in winter with a chicken (that died of natural causes) and it grew almost 20 apples the first year. I had to take them off when they were small so they wouldn’t break the branches

[@RenewedRS]

​@phoebeel why would a supermarket chicken be any different

[@siggyincr7447]

In the end it's all pretty much the same protein and bones. Fish has less bones so less minerals like calcium and phosphate. It all breaks down in in the the first year with the bones, feathers and hair potentially lasting a bit longer. Antibiotics and whatever else you're worried about in supermarket chicken is a non-issue. To be honest regular small applications of a balanced fertilizer including micro-elements during the growing season will give you better results. If this were really the most effective way to fertilize a tree commercial orchards would do it.

[@deltorres2100]

So I watched y’all the first time he pruned I have a 20 cheer year old Asian pair that is abundance but it was getting too hard for me to harvest. They were so high so I this of winter I had a young man come and do a hard hard pruning on it, and every lamb was trimmed at a 45 so make sure I did see that on 45° angle and now the spring is coming the blooms are coming it’s looking good it doesn’t make me feel so bad because it was like a butcher so I feel like I will get fruit this year last year. We got 300 pounds and so I’m happy it looks good. The tree looks happy, I usually harvest in the end of July to August so we shall see but right now white flowers are all over the place and it starts to look lovely. Thanks for having him there.🌱🌱🍐

[@Gkrissy]

I am glad that you did the follow-up for this video. It is very helpful to learn the foundamentals because I have young fruit trees.

[@runningwarrior5468]

This guy is the Ryan Hall Y'all of trees. Awesome!

[@Chrysaphius86]

Hi Anne I hope your doing well and your hand has healed nicely!!

[@clifc6351]

So Much Great information. The March/April winds are coming; and Ive been eying my Cherry Tree this winter thinking, I gotta trim up this tree right now! And you've posted this wonderful video. Thank You for the reinforcement of my madness. The Neighbors are gonna say "Look at that crazy guy trimming his tree in the winter!"

[@oby-1607]

We grow peaches commercially and everything he has stated and demonstrated is true. A very informative video for those who have questions or don't know.

[@tanisha.r.thomas]

Burying the chicken absolutely has everything to do with the growth. The past years I could afford to bury whole fish and my Apple tree went crazy with growth!!!All my other non fish trees died and got replaced. 🍎 tree is strong!!❤

[@3075stephen]

the anvil side of your pruner will harm the bark so put it to the outside of the cut. Good video.

[@melissaoleary8196]

For some reason I can watch videos or read about pruning trees and once I'm out in the field, I look at my tree, pruners in hand, branches everywhere and I'm like whaaat... am I doing? I think I have a tree pruning learning disability.

[@jacobhicks7959]

Forester here, look, decide, cut gotta just do it

[@kirstypollock6811]

Awesome video! I have 3 pear trees, and 6-7 apple trees to deal with (plus a few plum trees several super old non-dwarf ones that are a lost cause, but I'm a good climber😂). I got less than halfway last winter, then I got sick and it was spring and too late. Good call on the eye protection. I'm paranoid now about that as I've had LASIK, so my eyes are even more vulnerable if injured. I got some awesome cool looking wraparound safety glasses that I also wear on windy days and cycling. Bonus!

[@lorineschocknmyer9671]

I am looking forward to seeing the bumper crop this tree provides this summer! Learning a lot for sure.

[@jennifergarcia2237]

Winner, winner peach tree got a chicken dinner

[@AnneofAllTrades]

😂😂😂

[@carinbarkhuijsen6572]

😂😂😂😂

[@macarborist]

Daniel knows his stuff! Well done. Only watched half so far but already a great video! 👌

[@Cody_Ramer]

Great! Looking forward to the planting video as i have fruit trees coming in a month and a half or two.

[@yellowmuginc]

Thank you for sharing these invaluable tips, I absolutely love trees and the bushes on our property. We've received good advice and bad advice and all of this knowledge will help for a better plan

[@amos616]

This is amazing! I’d love to see him do a columnar fruit tree if possible as well. Small yard so I’ve got two columnar apples and a dwarf peach 🍑

[@botchvinik8668]

I always learn so much from these excellent videos of you and Daniel educating us on proper pruning methods. So i thank you for another great video. One thought that i had at the 7:40 time stamp when he removed that large multi-branched section, was what a shame it was that you didn't do an 'air layering' propagation on it a few weeks before this pruning session. It looked like it had really nice balanced structure and would have made a good tree i think. Sorry if reading this now gives rise to any feeling of regret over that missed opportunity Anne, not meaning for that to be the case at all. Just thinking out loud i guess. :-) EDIT: Lol, ohhhkaaaayyy....if i had watched all the way til the end before making my above comment, i would have known the answer to why you didn't propagate any of the branches being removed. 🙂

[@ForestsEdge]

Thank you for this! I’m getting ready to prune my fruit trees before I miss my winter window and this video provided more information that I can use to change my strategy pruning. I might even consider looking for an arborist in NC that can help assess my tree situation.

[@VanessasVarietyVenue]

I am a new subscriber and i just bought several fruit tree and was concerned about the growth so thanks this helps alot

[@Desertphile]

Thank you. I love the Fuji apples and Old People's Faces apples here at the ranch, but I have no idea how to care for the treees.

[@bowtielife]

OH YEAY!!! I have been looking for this update! Thank you for posting Anne!!! Also (A D D moment) the pond looks great!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Dude, isn’t it great?! I still can’t believe it worked!! I’ve got 5 kinds of fish on order

[@bowtielife]

@@AnneofAllTrades I can’t imagine kicking back and fishing on my own property after a day of hard homesteading. THAT’S AWESOME!😎

[@roxannekath929]

Good information! I’m in the PNW and will be finishing my pruning very soon!

[@TimPiggott]

One of the best explanations I've seen. Thank you both ❤

[@rbrojas2040]

That chicken was a good girl - still helping the garden. 🙂

[@luluhu7574]

So informative and this lady is fabulous. Thanks!

[@Zamicol]

Great video!! Thanks for posting Anne!

[@dhansonranch]

Very informative. Thank you for this. Looking forward to the planting video as there is a lot of conflicting information out there.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

So excited about it! We’ll hopefully clear all that conflict up ;)

[@johnjude2685]

This is a rerun belief I've seen this several times, but it is a great video. I've 5 apples and have been caring for 3 years but have improved thanks Yes a rerun

[@justinwest4923]

It's not a rerun; it's a followup to a previous video from this past summer.

[@MyFocusVaries]

Trees require summer and winter pruning. This is the winter pruning of the tree we saw summer pruned earlier.

[@2300Kenzie]

I once got a splinter on the underside of my eyelid while pruning a large tree. Fortunately I went to an optometrist friend who figured it out quickly and used an instrument he made to pull it out. He said that had I gone to the ER, they would have likely assumed it was gone and the eye was just still irritated. I then used safety glasses that were contoured a little closer.

[@omnisegoastrum]

Great video, it would be interesting if you could plant 2 more fast growing peach trees and leave one to do its own thing with zero maintenance and then keep the other one regularly pruned and maintained. Chickens buried under both for good measure😂

[@alunjones2550]

It might sound daft but bonsai artists probably give some of the best advice on tree pruning. I use bonsai principles to all my tree/shrub pruning in my garden (as well as all my bonsai).....

[@AnneofAllTrades]

So do I :)

[@roberhatube2366]

You were SO AFRAID of him trimming your tree . So glad you accepted what he was saying about trees

[@latauarobison6521]

Could you guide me to fungus prevention and fertility snd. Calcium maintenance. Tips for fruiting.

[@enjoythevibez5605]

i've been guilty of lion tailing ,but i've not learned different before today, thank you both

[@kirstypollock6811]

Yeah, me too. ALL my neighbours have fruit trees and they all said that was the way. I should have known better because I was getting nice easy to reach apples from the small branches... Oh well, now I know!

[@jenniferbassett3001]

Fabulous information Anne and Daniel 👍👍

[@aliciabuddy4690]

I cannot wait to see your summer pruning part 3 video. Summe ris sooo far away...

[@BlaBlaBlaInDaHouse]

Good video! The guy definitely knows what he's talking about

[@deltorres2100]

Do it do it ..a hard pruning will keep the tree living longer.. So my 22 year old parent treat I planted as a just a young little 3 gallon pot. I planned the day after I buried my mother and they told me he would take 5 to 7 years to fruit and it did and we cared for it and and it’s actually Not far from my house like it’s in the grass line of the house so it’s not on the other side of the sidewalk it’s in the front and I always love it because it gives great shade. I do fight the black Crowes but it’s been good and we had pruned it but not a hard pruning so I’m happy I was devastated but I knew I had to do it and we did a hard pruning and it’s perfect nowand I don’t know if I’m going to do a summer pruning because here in Texas we have so many bugs and I’m worried that bug will get inside my tree disease damage

[@AshInTrees]

Daniel is the man. I love these videos.

[@enyab1687]

These videos really helped with my liberty apple. Unfortunately, I'm in zone 6b and we're under knee deep snow, so it'll be a bit longer before I can do any pruning. Probably best to wait until spring anyway.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

actually, it’s really best to do heavy pruning when the tree is dormant during winter months, before the tree starts putting energy into budding out, so now is the time!

[@enyab1687]

@@AnneofAllTrades what's one more shoveled path? Thanks!

[@redslither6551]

excited for the next video on planting fruit trees! ^-^

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Us too!

[@_Merica_USA]

Another Great Video 👍 Great content, keep up the great work!

[@heidiwheeler9917]

"this is literally my whole fruit tree... but okay, it's good, it's fine.." bahahaha!!! I would have DIED! I wonder if you can graft that onto rootstock and have another mature peach tree LOL

[@rbrojas2040]

I thought dead animal decomposition can heat the ground a lot, enough to burn the roots (at least from what I saw when someone was measuring the heat of their compost pile that hadn't fully rotted coming at 60*celcius. Is there a specific depth to plant a chicken to get the benefits without the harm?

[@dragonsoul48sds45]

Wish I saw this a few days ago when I did my pruning lol

[@TaylorParnell]

ALWAYS GIVING US SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@davidneel8327]

For removing steel fence posts or wooden fence get yourself a farmer's jack. Basically, an old-style car jack.

[@mcnorcan]

Great follow up video. I’m now subscribed.

[@astatine0085]

And you can get a fruit picker pole. The work great

[@kirstypollock6811]

Yeah, I have 2, one goes to 3m. And a cropper on a 2m pole. But I was always really good at climbing trees so I do that too :-).

[@bijou737]

Great video on pruning, which I am trying to learn. Thanks! (Where did this guy learn to prune?)

[@gracewoods5322]

Ok so how do I get my peaches to ripeness without losing them to pests and mildew? Guild? Neem? I've heard the woes of hobby farmers saying not to plant peaches but my kids begged (by way of stuffing seeds everywhere and sprouting several trees that needed to be transplanted😂)...so here we are.

[@davidneel8327]

Girdling of trees is a method used by pioneers to kill trees to provide firewood or lumber. They would do it in the fall after all the sap has drained to the roots and harvest in the spring.

[@iwatchthistuf]

you need a root stock tree to graise the rootts with then graft on to the peach cuttings

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Stay tuned for our propagation video ;)

[@leslubiesdetienne]

Awesome thank you! The dead chicken probably helped indeed!

[@rhuarimacleod4862]

Great video thanks

[@WilliamDiaz-v5f]

Very informative ! How can I also follow Daniel. ?

[@dpmeyer4867]

Thanks

[@rprastein]

Do you have a link to the video about what to do about the tree planted too deep? I think that's what happened to our peach tree (all of the fruit trees in our yard were planted a year or two before I bought the house). Most of the young tree died within our first year here, apparently with some sort of beetle infestation, leaving only one living branch. The tree was planted in a locally low spot in the yard and I could see water wasn't draining well around it, so instead of building soil up into a mound at the base, I basically dug out a circle some four feet out, and sloped the soil from the base of the tree to the perimeter of the circle. The tree did better the following several years, although the squirrels have been eating all of the fruit. Now my husband has mounded soil up at the base of the tree again, which I think may be a mistake. Just wondering whether I did right, and whether I should undo my husband's handiwork or just leave it alone, or if there is anything else we can do to help this poor tree.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

We dug it up and replanted it (that is the tree we are doing root surgery on at the end of the video). If I were you I would immediately unmound the dirt around your tree and continue to redirect the water. That is what I would have done as well. You don’t even have to fully uproot it like we did with this tree, either, you can carefully excavate the soil away from the trunk of the tree until you get down to the top of the root system. Then I’d just add some leaf mulch and call it a day.

[@rprastein]

Thanks, @@AnneofAllTrades . I'm going out in the yard tomorrow to move an Acanthus mollis (Bear's Breeches) plant, so I'll take care of this while I'm out there.

[@novastar369]

When it comes to the propagating just throw it in a pot to slow down the growth or dig up some of the roots for grafting.

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Stay tuned for our propagation video coming this fall! We’ll go in depth into air layering, propagating cuttings and picking the right trees/species to do so. We intentionally DID NOT show that in this video, because we wouldn’t want to directly root these particular cuttings from these particular trees. Cuttings from grafted dwarf trees like these wouldn’t make for the kind of fruit trees we actually want unless we were to graft them to other dwarf root stock. Also, cuttings that are simply rooted will make perfect clones of the species of whatever was originally grafted onto the original dwarf rootstock they came from, so directly rooted cuttings from these specific trees would, more likely than not, produce an unmanageably tall tree unsuited for safe/efficient fruit picking. Without a diversity of species/variety of trees, orchards are far more prone to devastating plights of pests and diseases, because if one tree is affected, it’s highly likely all the other trees of the same species will also be affected, and that danger is only amplified if you’ve got cloned trees. If a pest/fungus/disease settles into a monocrop orchard (or worse, an orchard of cloned trees), it will have a veritable buffet of susceptible plants at it’s disposal, and will multiply and get out of hand quickly. As an organic farmer, because we don’t use pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, we want as many different species of trees from as many different sources as possible in our orchard, because this way, if a certain pest or disease likes one variety of tree but not another, then we only lose the crop/ or a single tree rather than the entire orchard.

[@deltorres2100]

Before I made the decision to do a hard pruning on the pear tree, I watched so many videos.,

[@danpozzi3307]

I no matter how well, or even if you didn’t print at all, fruit production depends on the weather. Storms during bloom will wash off the flowers and our little honey bee buddies won’t be out pollinating . If your tree is blooming and we get storms, that tree is not gonna have as much fruit, bottom line

[@FloraM44]

I'm very curious how to prune combination trees, which have multiple varieties grafted onto a single rootstock!

[@AnneofAllTrades]

The same way! I’ve got many trees like that here.

[@FloraM44]

@@AnneofAllTrades that's interesting thanks! Mine are still very young with only like one branch of each type so if I trimmed them, I worry they'd spread in the wrong directions 😳🤪

[@stevedando7226]

I have no trees but ❤ video

[@stevedando7226]

How about how to sharpen pruners

[@kirstypollock6811]

Oh god yes! I got a sharpening tool after seeing another video but I can't seem to make it work...

[@WalterRiggs]

I’m about to plant some orange trees. hurry with the next video! :)

[@mihow888]

Battery chainsaw and cow manure paste to paint the cuts 🤙

[@cathyhuddle1769]

Wanting dwarf fruit trees and such great information

[@DawnaRo]

I wonder if I can do this to my cheerry tree that insists on growing UP?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Absolutely would do.

[@antonomaseapophasis5142]

9:32 …an I’ll just pop in here When did you pop out?

[@davidneel8327]

When I lived in Florida, they would trim the trees before hurricane season.

[@beam5037]

Nice copper mug.

[@itpatriot]

I would love Daniel’s contact info. We are in the Nashville area and would love to contact him!

[@pondholloworchards]

I would love to see a 80 ft tall peach tree

[@SoyNSuds]

The stake is still there :-)

[@fleurettewoods6080]

Is this good for all fruit trees, or only peaches?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Most fruit trees- check out this other primer for more tree species specific tips: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmfLiJRpo91qr9Esi=wh0AGTpLIzxgLdVY

[@fffbti]

What about the rule of only pruning 1/3 of the tree at any one pruning?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

That’s why we pruned it this summer first, to see how it would respond/react to pruning so we could prune accordingly this winter ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmfLiJRpo91qr9Esi=wh0AGTpLIzxgLdVY

[@rbrojas2040]

06:30 I swear that bud grew 0.5cm between clips. 😂

[@astatine0085]

But if we allow natural structure won’t the tree be stronger?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

You’d think, but I’d invite you to walk through the woods behind my house and see all the trees that have been ruined by wind, the weight of snow and ice, and general lack of pruning. Nature does take care of itself, but not nearly in as efficient or long lasting as we homesteaders might like from the trees we intentionally plant.

[@kirstypollock6811]

In a forest, I guess the cycle of life works fine with random falling trees to open up light for others to grow, and provide dead wood for fungus etc to break down to feed the trees. But when we only have a few trees, our stakes are higher if we lose a few. I've lost one cherry, probably lose another plus 2 or 3 apple trees because of previous (and frankly my own) neglect. Some are really old though!

[@GibClark]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@ABlueDahlia]

Where's the fruit tree planting video?

[@SuperRiverRat1]

You could have pulled that stake out easily if you’d only put the bloody cup down! 😂

[@AnneofAllTrades]

😂 NEVER

[@Mael01369]

Safety first because getting maimed is the worst

[@Braham_the_Terror]

How's your tree doing now?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

The peach tree is THRIVING. The girdled roots on the plum tree and a major drought this summer did it in, as Daniel predicted would be the case, but it was worth it to me to try to save it.

[@Kay-xi9kv]

I thought you weren’t supposed to prune in the rain?

[@AnneofAllTrades]

Sometimes you work when the work needs doing ;)

[@rawfoodwriter]

Picking trees 😂